Jack Jewers on his passion for history
In this interview with Female First, Jack Jewers talks about the process of writing his debut novel, The Lost Diary Of Samuel Pepys, and how his interest in history led him to his fascinating subject…
“I don’t think readers expect accuracy in all things, but I also believe that the second worst sin of historical fiction is to knowingly mislead. (The worst is to be boring). Like any history nerd, I love reading about the purely factual side of our past, but knowledge and understanding are two different things. The first requires study. The second, you can’t do without imagination.”
